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t many russian oris fight as soldiers jtwelve from moscow school served together regulations against enlistment dont bar them and some win honors russian regulations do not allow wo men to enlist as soldiers but if french correspondents with the russian forc es claiming to write from personal ex perience are to be believed many russian women have succeeded in evading the regulation either by a per sonal appeal to the czar or by influ ence with relatives of high rank in the army apollovna isoltseva was unwilling to be separated from her father col isoltsev and obtained permission to serve in his regiment the colonel mortally wounded in a battle was car ries to a ruined house which later was set on are apollovna rushed out of the blazing building and dragged her fathers body under continuous lire from the enemy maria bieloverskaia another volun teer dragged the commander of her battalion who had fallen badly wound ed out of the zone of fire and was awarded the st georges cross fourth class a little later when with a re connoitring party she discovered a telephone hidden in a loft which had been used by spies for this she was raised to a third class cross miss kokovtseva distinguished her self with- the cossacks on many scout ing parties and received the st georges medal she was last heard of in a petrograd hospital where she was lying severely wounded cuts off hair to be a soldier olga schidlowskaia belongs to a sol diers family her elder brother was killed early in the war and her younger brother has been severely woundd she cut off her hair and obtained leave to serve with the fourth hussars a regi ment in which a celebrated heroine alexandra dourova served as second lieutenant in 1812 against napoleon ekaterina sokolow and two students elena kozloyskaia and felltsata kou- dlaieva are among the wounded in rus sian hospitals jiarialiniareva was sued recently at nicolaievsk by the singer company for nonpayment of rent for a sewing machine the magistrate asked what excuse she had to offer to which she replied nothing except that i have been fighting against the austrians and have been wounded here are my papers the magistrate examined them and said it s true this is not a woman but a soldier anda wounded soldier j in thatcafiisanie representa- trv singer company i am glad to withdraw my complaint but the most extraordinary of these narratives of girl soldiers is that of zoe smirnoff and her eleven girl friends all pupils at a moscow gym nasium all about the same age be tween 16 and 18 but of various social positions who determined to fight for their country from the very beginning in fact from the eighth day after mob ilization was ordered some five weeks ago a very young noncommissioned officer decorated with the st georges cross arrived at the headquarters of a certain russian army saluted the staff captain pro duced a military record and said your excellency i have been sent to find you i arrive from the front my name is zoe smiroff then she told of how she had been fighting against the austrogerrnans for fourteen months it was a great grief to me and my eleven comrades to leavo our parents without kissing them farewell but it had to be so russia needs all her children when we reached the suburban station we found our way to the train by taking water and fruit for the sol dier then we told them how we wanted to fight for our country and they welcomed us most patriotically and with every politeness they found room for us on the train and later found us uniforms a captain prom ised us guns from the first men to fall during the journey the soldiers gave us tho most comfortable corners and wo shared the provisions we had brought wo each adopted a mans name and sang hymns with our new comrades wo reached the austrian frontier and began to march on lwoff which tho austrians profanely call lem- berg there only the colonel learned of the presence of twelve young girls in military uniform who wero with his soldiers ho sent for us and began to scold us but soon lost his severity af ter hairing out story and allowed us to remain and was saved by some nurses of an other regiment who happened to pass after a month in the hospital- she started to the place where she had left her regiment it was no longer there another regiment occupid the tranch es overcome with sadness ut this unexpected loss she burst into tears to the great surprise of the soldiers who could not understand such weak ness in a young noncommissioned offi cer decorated with ihe st georges cross expanlations followed and her military record proved her story showing how she nad won her crofo by scouting missions the military authorities then per suaded zoe who had not fully recov ered from her wounds to abandon ac tive fighting and become a nurse in an ambulance near the front she reluc tantly agreed at least for a time she has never been able to learn what has become of her young friends whose regiment has been sent to another front russia has plenty of money caimans are formidable foes great contrast between that coun try and germany russias finances rest upon the most solid foundation in the world says pierre bark finance minister the economic prosperity of the rus sian people which is now greater than was ever conceived possible before the beginning of the war thus while the masses of the german people are re duced by the war to poverty every month of the war has enriched the russians during the month of january the savings banks alone show an increase in deposits of 120000000 roubles the london daily chronicle has this is accounted for principally by the following from phillip gibbs cor- the growing thrift and economy of j respondent at british headquarters the peasants since the enforcement j from the german point of view of prohibition by there must be something horribly dis- ing powers and the higher wages i f hey command and by the govern- concerting n the variety of men op- ment provision for the families of posed to them in the trenches in soldiers which materially increased spite of the deadly similarity of trench their antebellum income warfare there are many differences this marvellous prosperity makes in the fighting characteristics of brit- russia capable of raising a large num- ish brigades it is a question of race ber of successful internal loans and an temperament and discipline if it is by this menns chiefly that we j j had t misfortune to be a german they are greatly feared by tiie germans one exploit circulated by general joffre as model to the french gas bombs used 300 years ago german perfected science of projectiles bishop von galen used these mis siles at cambrai and ypres an article in the paris temps traces the origin of asphyxiating gas bombs back three hundred years it says the entire world is indignant that such methods of warfare are em ployed by men proclaiming them selves to be champions of a pre eminent- culture but we should not be astonished or indignant at these proceedings it was in fact one of their most famous generals who in the seventeenth century added to the art of killing the art of asphyxiating sinister inventor too his name was christopher bernard von galen never did a more sinister from the middle west notes of interest from heb banks and braes what is going on in the highlands and lowlands of auld scotia w wooden shed dignified by the name of j jrd it was their common sense which lecture hall where an officer v as giv- gave him his chance ing an address on tactics j something more than common sense and the shrewd humor which they have freedom m the rants through many weary dreary nob far away the guns were firing j mon oi bood atul mu inspires the and the dull crash of each shell snook j sp 0 th canadians who have the windows of the hut it was a out here to fi with their highly technical lecture and tho at- sp youth and their fine free figure appear in the world to affright tention of all the men was closely wavs of speecni and their cunning j it by the atrocity of his exploits he held but every now and again some war craf t the patr of the was born in westphalia about 1c04 breezy bit of canadian slang and n j men who nave eft ther f in a prison where his father was passing hit at some wellknown char- in tlc far wcst for tnis g j undergoing sentence for an assassina- acter in the division caused a gust of show as they call it is a real conjtion adopted by an uncle bernard laughter i consc ideal with them malinkroot he showed a precocious officers and noncommissioned of- j t1 arc jot fighting for their i bent for pillage and violence at ficers were all mixed up together n hearths am homes but for the first choosing a career of arms he and most of them were smoking so otner ot t race and f later preferred the ecclesiastical state that the shed was thick with fug thc sake of ow memo am 0 tra- j and in 1g50 became canon of the ca- then came question time and sev- 0mon whica are vital in their creed i thedral of munster oral of the younger men commis- o fc ifc is for that as we as for bishopric becoming vacant sioncd and noncommissioned rose to hei own prjdej that thoy sto01 fast tn same year would have naturally put comical inhumes to the lecturer yores and died so many of them fallen to the uncle who was dean of where they stood the chapter but von galen wanted the honor for himself and gave a suicides in german army j grand banquet plying the canons with wine and during the course of who had given them a lead by ending in a provocative jest it was all free- andeasy and the men were enjoying themselves but they were burning also with keen interest in their work as was shown by the closelywritten notes in their pocketbooks and by hope to defray the expenses of the 0 ishou hate to have the hi gh t f p0cke ana dy war which have now reached 1 000- 1 f l snouio nate to na e me nign the lnstant s that followed a f 000 000 roubles monthly germany landers anywhere near my place in a ser ques of technical interest tarj 000000 can call for internal loans with such confidence of their success i began modestly with loans of j the irish have a peculiar sense of two or three hundred millions but humor which is not at all funny to the last loan was for one billion and j those who are the victims of it bomb- the present loan of two billion was i parties from certain north of j trench they are fierce and terrible fighting men tf j the irish have a peculiar sense to have received a document it is an order every prospect of being readily sub scribed it is also encouraging to note that the rouble has already as sumed an upward trend while the-v- zst tj 1 german mark shows no sign of appre- ljsflw of reasons i fancy elating loans with new england battalions bring terror with friend whicn is t rifle it them down a german trenh they sclf treat it as your baby he show no mercy japdaskfocnonfi lij wet nursc to it it was trie pcrofalorr of another in another shed a number of young fesses canadians sat with rifles between of great importance their legs listening to a lecture oniof the day bearing the number 2107 musketry from a veteran who told and issued them all the unpleasant things that might happen if they neglected their rigorous measures will be taken to the banquet they elected him bishop stamp out the evil tnen le exiled his uncle and brought from a german prisoner the mili ary critic of- rannicye outro pro- about his death his army of thugs he raised an army of cutthroats and beseiged munster bombarding the city without warning he hired out his men who sometimes num bered 20000 sometimes to england by field maishal von hinderburg to the group of armies un- u der his command the order had evi- sometimes to france or germany ho dently been caused by thc prevalence j perfected the science of projectiles of jsuicttuiong the german soldiers and invented incendiary bombs which seems to have aroused great i 1672 the bishop besieged gron- anxiety in their commander this is n visr h was iiib iicrurarau ii aiioumr j anxiety in uieir commanuer ims is ingen using bombswhich were the ptvft de nerveracking to be on the technical discourse and amused young the fjeld marshals message i ancestors of shrapnel basnage de- york banterare j opposite side of the way to the can- g wn0 at the second battle it is easy for us to comprehend the j scr them as being filled with sul- 42152438 less than the budget for slot machines have been closed up in regina school of infantry instruction has started at calgary cali ry had a school enrolment fo- january of 7988 flour fund for belgium in sas katchewan is nearly 540000 delburne possesses quite a large open air rink fairy well fitted up seventy men have enlisted from the union church of northeast cal gary the barroom of the hotel at ben- gough sask has been turned into a school room as a result of measles the col legiate institute at prince albert was closed for ten days lawyers in alberta are strongly urging the creation of a kings bench and appeal court saskatchewan farmers are propos ing to ask the government for a minimum wage of farm hands to see the bonspiel dog races in winnipeg last week 20000 people crowded fort street for two hours jas leonard a cpr conductor was killed while attempting to board his freight train at rcston man the cost of thawing out water ser vices at calgary this winter will like ly be in thc neighborhood of 50000 nicholas bitz who owned a large farm near lake lenore sask died suddenly last week while on his way home at the farmers parliament in saskatoon last week it was esti mated that 1500 delegates were in attendance coyotes in saskatchewan are dy ing from the mange with which dis ease some of the animals were in oculated in the states at warsaw sask the roads have been so badly drifted farmers could not get into town for three weeks the temperature was between 20 and 45 below estimates for the cost of civil gov ernment in manitoba for tho ensuing year are 5625866022 this is 52- j now being considered avjrsince wo adians in flanders- offer the best v security that is the enemy never knows railwax b0jaia guaranteed by the these fellows are going to be up government it seems to me a loan j nex will be mutually beneficial and it is to be hoped will mark the beginning of greatly increased business between russia and the united states we ex pect to go through the war with our credit unimpaired to i nejti when they are most quiet they are most dangerous they are not only inspired by a restless auda city but they are so cunning and so of ypres some of them perhaps reasons for the increasing number of j p pellets saltpeter and gunpowder last year had helped to save the british army j suicides in the russian ranks their i these were used by day but at night i mckenzie escaped by strategy girl helps french prisoner in forging german pass one of the most adventurous rec ords of escape from hostile territory so far chronicled in the war is that of a french officer who was made secretary of tho by shootingstraight when the en- soldiers recognize very well that a he fired enormous shells which pen- j manitoba grain growers announces emy had driven back their left continued resistance on their part will ed in falling letting loose scores of tnat 520000 has been realized as a g after the lectures i followed them be absutely fruitless because the bullets copper blades and a matter result of the patriotic acre sche injg all into a muddy lane where they i russia arms as well as those of j 0 such an insupportable odor that the tamm did sqtiitd drih-ns- though they were j fran-r- jyeahy row i ggiaras ujsirahlejjhljcia methodical that they will undertake raw rcoru5tsj i of men who had i virtually defeated however it seems j tants were obliged to y from what seems like a wildcat adventure uiii t f tbrnnob winter i i 1m ni tim fi bn1 ti- i v with certain death at the end of it and get back with hardly a scratch praises canadians they have brought the spirit of tho trapper to the trenches and they are very patient in marking down so it was in a glum and england and eventually regained his own country after capturing a german battery with his company of south charleroi held the trenches through a winter hard discipline but with a fair spirit of freedom in the ranks it is this spirit acknowledged as a fighting quality which accounts for the little habits of one man among the canadians who is pro- their prey so it was in a recent j duced for the benefit of distinguished cutting out raid when a party of j visitors he comes from thc rocky j perhaps the undue prolongation of the them all volunteers went out one mountains and is very artful in min- v too are responsible for the cases night with the astounding intention ing operations and can hear from 0 suicide which have occurred recent- among our regiments happenings outside one of the strongest german being fond of animals he makes a j of this kind are a disgrace to our glo and the doubts are trench full of dugout in the trenches under a 1 foot layer of earth for head shelter as if doubts about the final issue hnd stricken quarters and n were arisen also among our own troops asphyxiated some of our soldiers are said to ques tion the possibility of our success on all fronts and to believe that we will not be able to prevent the russians from invading our eastern provinces such doubts and to some extent kaisers prototypes later he used these incendiary assure the belgians that allies can not regain their country in order to depress the belgians re maining in their own land the ger- prisoner by the germans shortly af- of ge through the barbed wire i afar the scratch of a german pick my io battle of charleroi in august i 4u t ti rri f i t n i tor the m wncwhem isd vt holland etn for a small party to get habit of keeping his horse in hvjyious country back again from a germans and machine guns is not so easy as escaping from a jungle full of maneating tigers and was not con he was left unconscious near the en- sidered part of the programme of war emys lines and posted as dead on the field of honor he was carried back however by a german ambu lance and after two months in the hospital recovered from his wounds a french girl who attended him promised to assist she brought him old clothes and assisted him in forging a german pass disguised as a rtamp he slipped out of the hospital one night and started through the villages of northern france his counterfeit pass carrying him past the sentries the dangerous stage was in cross ing the belgian frontier to holland thus ho effected through an agent who made a business of helping young belgians over he was instructed to walk at night to a milestone where a man with a red muffler would bo sit ting on a heap of stones as he passed the man he was to belglca and keep on ho followed his instructions the man rose and overtook him with a low follow me holland then he disappeared from there to england and thence to franco was easy before the canadians gave their ex hibition it was so successful that general joffre has circulated an ac count of the canadians exploit as a model to the french army after taking some prisoners and killing about 30 men they came home again with only two casualties one caused by accident to men who know the conditions of trench war fare this exploit still seems fantastic the difference being fond also of newlaid eggs ho keeps his cocks and chickens in his dugout and although these things are unusual and would riot be tolerated by english brigadiers of i themselves entirely unwarranted on j the contrary our latest encounters have shown that in spite of our nu- 1 merical inferiority we are sure always to get the better of the russians j thanks to our methods of defensive tactics and strategy 1 then follows a eulogy of the kais- er laying special stress oh his great of discipline and the usual thing j 0 yj the victories won by the austro girl soldiers wounded we crossed gallcla climbed the carpathians without one of us being ill or dragging behind in the trench es a sort of special guard watched over us the men taking turns to seo that no barm happened to us oh yes 1 was afraid the first time wo wero under shell flro who would not be most of my companions shrieked as tho first projectile fell near us choura and lida two child ren of 15 crier out mother and i did tho same so i was told after even for tho men it was a terrible mo ment one night in tho carpathians poor i zlna morozova was almost smashed to fragments by a big shell wo collect- d the remains and when the enemys flro slackened down wo buried them and heaped a pile of stones over the j grave several others were wounded afterwards nadta then genla and then little choura zoe- herself yras wounded twice in tho foot and then in the fddd she was loft unconscious on tho battlefield news of riot hidden the berlin letter says fighting streets was not published a letter written from berlin on january 2 has fallen into the hands of the liberte of paris and has been printed telling of struggles in the streets of berlin on tho last day of 1915 and on new years day in which shots wero fired tho writer of tho letter says ho was on both occasions shut in tho house or hotel with all blinds and doors opening on the front closed and police guarding to see that no one looked out there was not a word in any of the papers following the events the writ er states that ho asked a chauffeur who drove him what had happened and tho chaffeur became very fright ened and said a great many fell but is is not to be talked about it was also reported tho writer says that thorewere disturbances at tho krupp works and at frankforfr-on- maln and offenbach them ingeniously but could get no answer little german patrjl work is done opposite canadian trenches nor are the enemy ever left in peace behind the trenches patient snipers the canadians get machine guns on to their working parties and sweep tho crossroads upon which supplies come up and the canadian sniper may lie for hours in sulky patience but in the end ho gets his man this prin ciple of making life intolerable for tho enemy is of course laid down for all troops in the lino but though it is not an original idea of the canadians they show terrible originality in some of their methods of carrying it out they arc original men one can not go among them as i did yester day again without seeing how tho individuality of their character rises above military discipline without de stroying or weakening that discipline ono scene was typical of the whole spirit of the canadian force it was in a school for officers and ncos which had been established behind tho fighting lines so that the minds of these men may be trained on broader lines than those bounded by trench warfare i stood for a few moments inside a and asphyxiating bombs all cambrai man are spreading stories as to the and ypres thc soldiers of vest- probable duration of the war and tho phalia were no more sparing thtojp of the allies attempts than they are today of the marvellous tovain belgium by force of arms flemish city they are doing three says a letter centuries later the same barbaric j the estimate-of- many officers ia deeds i that tho war will last for another two at least the criminal von galen years during which time they assert who led them to pillage was over the allies will be exhausted while whelmed with remorse in the last germany now that a new road is hours of his life after hi3 death his oper to the east is perfectly as- attendants invaded the episcopal surcd of all she nne despite eng- palace stole all the bishops wealth and blockade on the other hand stripped the body of its rich vest- many of the- germans are far from ments and left it naked m his room com over the threatened thus was punished in his death one spring offensive of the allies about of thoso german soldiers of fortune which apparent they talk more than who were ambitious of the fame of the am themselves attila let the kaiser the new de- in many p immediately behind stroyer of ypres past master of in- the fignting y they are actually as- cendiary and asphyxiating artillery sisting some of t inhabitants to mediate upon this example the cou some women who have come from rulers for assistance science and the war declare they wore advised to leave by i german officers who helped them to the horrors of battle has been im- m up their minds to leave by mensely alleviated threatening that if the german army in an address to tho leeds medical was forced to retreat they would de- school on science and war sirwil- stroy every house in the place ham osier declared that in two ways while this form of f rightfulness science is the best friend war has ever is going on in west flanders and had on the one hand it has not only among the french speaking belgians made slaughter possible on a scale t germans are doing their best to mi wicmsivc- never dream boforc but l llas a1 ingratiate themselves with theflem- iui tnemsuves ii uil umquuiia s0 enormous increased mans capa- manv facili- e officers they will be deprived of clv to mam and a his fellow ls section ana granting many iacui in common sense applied to war and th rank and tried by courtmartial i man mor0 raen are hined more men ties to tms p to increase its hold not in high mysteries and secret rites j tlle only reason for the efforts to save are wounded and consequently more on the country at antwerp al- which cannot be known outside the t lives of these wouldbe suicides is men are needed than ever before in though severe the attitude of the circle of initiation one of their gen- t they may get adequately punish- the history of war from 1790 to 1913 1 germans isalmost mild compared orals a young man of 39 had no j cd f t dishonorable act fur- there wero 18552200 men engaged in with that of the government of brus the conventional type as subversive military genius and an enumeration has no one in tho canadian division has german armies in conclusion the issued a protest c commander warns of the severe after all a horse in a dugout does j pun that will be meted out in not interfere with the successful ex- evc i of attempted suicide plosion of a mine nor does a fresh jj iov the order reads on this and incredible it was possible only supply of newlaid eggs benefit the i po because these canadians had made bosches on the other side of the 1 most rigorous measures in cunning of more importance than way j f any availrble measures will be courage itself and had adapted old so the general turns a blind eye ia t stamp out this suicide evil lessons of red indian warfare to he also keeps ono deaf car for lang- j to pu it up as it were by its very these new conditions of modern fight- uage which could only be tolerated roots i have given orders to the ing from a man from the rocky moun- j corps 0 surgeons and physicians to the germans did not dare to show j tains utterly irreverent in the pre- use their utmost skill in trying to their noses for days after this ter- sence of brass hats but a wonderful save t lives of thoso who may try rible surprise canadian scouts came good miner j to kill themselves if the delinquents over the ground at night and insulted the canadians are great believers j al previous experience of war when he j thermore i wish to notify all soldiers tilc great wars of whom 5498097 lost j se the extraordipryjceenms5fjhe brought his troops to flanders but having a notion to commit suicide that t i ls cstimatcd thatmore teuton to divide the people in tho hops ving he impressed me as a leader of men who in open warfare might win- great victories by doing the commonsense thing rapidly and decisively to tho surprise of an enemy working by elaborate science he would i think astound them by the simplicity of his smashing stroke it was first by common sense too that one of his officers became one of the bombing experts of the brit ish army when i met him it was in tho hall of a convent which no longer holds tho silence of black- robed nuns i recognized him as a journalist who knows the way from red lion court to hanging sword alley cunning war craft before tho war he had never seen a handgrenade and all his knowledge of high explosives was confined to those in tho subeditors room when copy conies in late but by com mon sense ho has become what the canadians call r big bug on bombs their names will inscribed on the than 21000000 men are engaged in tho of event obtaining on its western swfs or six million men in the prime of life annoyance to belgians in the western will bo killed artillery high explos- parts of the country whose comments lives submarines and air craft have refbring upon them harsh punishment volutionized tho methods of warfare the germans have made the uni- and thousands are now killed instead versity of ghent a flemish institution of hundreds on tho other hand an man other parts of the coun- sclenco has immensely alleviated the try na op schools where flem- 5kssijsiss5sisssf d german are spoken next to their keenness to annex the country there is nothing about which f now more determined than the of all french influence in belgium blacklist of thc german army their wives and children will lose all their rights and privileges and will never receive the least allowance or assist ance from any german authorities laughter laughter begins either with the mouth or tho eyes then come tho other muscular groups and then come tho vocal expressions of laugh ter such as brays cackles sniggers simpers giggles snorts grunt3 fog horn rumbles yells shrieks guffaws trills chuckles sniffles and all sorts of peculiar bird notes and musical sounds every man knows some other man whom he would like to kick the man who is too poor to lend money to his friends will never have many enemies ot machinery for tho transport and care of the sick and wounded and through the application of modern me thods of preventing disease we know how all the great camp diseases plague cholera malaria yellow fever typhoid fever typhus and dysentery are transmitted and of all but yellow fever wo know the germs science loo has made great progress in the treat ment of wounds antiseptics the x- ray preventive inoculation and anaes thesia have snved enormous numbers from misery and tortture its impossible to suppress thc man who thinks ho can toll a funny story cold the day is short expansion and contraction prof what are the properties of heat steward tho chief property isthat it causes bodies to expand whilo cold causes them to contract prof excellent give an example steward in summer when it is hot tho day is long in winter when it is